Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of exclusions from schools in Hertfordshire were of (a) pupils with SEND and (b) black pupils in 2020-21.

The requested information is not yet available for the 2020/21 academic year. This is due to be published on 28 July 2022.

Information for the 2019/20 academic year and earlier academic years is available in the Office for National Statistics’ release ‘Permanent exclusions and suspensions in England’, available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england.

The following data has been produced from the ‘Explore data and files section’. It includes details of permanent exclusions and suspensions by characteristic (pupils with special educational needs and disabilities and black pupils), from 2006 to 2019 in Hertfordshire: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/9aa11aed-bd1a-43a2-9c3a-d891128d54b8.